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...rare moment of levity in an otherwise dour and downbeat Franco-West German summit meeting between the two leaders. Five hours of discussion had failed to dissipate a growing malaise between Paris and Bonn, much less restore the intimate Franco-German relationship that flourished under ex- President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. The current differences, over trade talks and agricultural prices, seem certain to hinder progress toward greater West European unity. More important, on the prickly issue of Star Wars and Ronald Reagan's invitation to West Europeans to join in the U.S.'s Strategic Defense...
Rival parties are scrambling to show that they too appreciate the U.S. example. Former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, in his successful run for re-election to the National Assembly last September, made it a point to praise U.S. entrepreneurial dynamism. But the most enthusiastically pro-American politicians, according to polls, are the Gaullists. Although they were hostile to the U.S. in the '60s and early '70s, Gaullists are front and center among the politicians who now scramble to be photographed with U.S. Ambassador Evan Galbraith. Only the Communists, whose political power is shrinking, remain implacably critical of everything American...
President François Mitterrand last week made the first visit to Britain by a French head of state in eight years. Like two of his postwar predecessors, Charles de Gaulle and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the Socialist leader was accorded the rare honor of addressing members of both houses of Parliament. He used the occasion to issue a ringing appeal for European unity. Said Mitterrand: "The moment has come to make Europe become a genuine political reality, capable of asserting itself on the international scene...
After three years of political exile, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing has become the first former President since the Fifth Republic wa; founded in 1958 to regain a seat in the National Assembly. Giscard, who was defeated by François Mitterrand in 1981 , captured an impressive 63% of the vote in the department of Puy-de-Dôme regaining a seat he had held repeatedly since 1956. The winner who has made no secret of his desire to be the center-right presidential candidate in 1988, proclaimed his "victory of reason...
...could not have come at a better time for Giscard. Since leaving the presidency he has watched his support slip away to other center-right politicians, first to Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac and lately to Raymond Barre, each of whom had served as Giscard's Premier. The former President has not scored well in recent opinion polls, trailing both Barre and Chirac as well as Simone Veil, a former Giscard Cabinet Minister and now a French member of the European Parliament. Last week's victory was important for Giscard, according to Political Writer Jean-Marie Benoist, because...